600. Q&AF: Money Isn't Everything, Loneliness In No Man's Land & Supporting Spouse
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On this episode of the Realist, the guys talk about the holidays and the craziness that is First Form Energy. First Form is a company that helps you get better at entrepreneurship, business, personal development, and how to be a better person. They have a program called 75 Hard called the 75 Hard Program, which is designed to help you become a better entrepreneur and entrepreneurist.
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what is up guys it's andy for selling this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today we
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have q and af that's where you get to submit questions and we give you the answers now if
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you want to submit your questions to be answered on the show there's a couple different ways you
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can do that the first way is guys email those questions into ask andy at andy for seller.com
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or you can go down in the comments and drop your question right there and we will pick some from
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there as well now these questions can be about anything it can be about what's going on in the
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world but typically we like to talk about how we're going to get better entrepreneurship business
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personal development how to be better people um those are the questions that we like but we'll
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take some about anything whatever you guys want to know other times you tune in we have cti that's
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where we talk about what's going on in the world uh we speculate on what's true what's not true and
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then we talk about how we the people are the solution to the problems going on in the world
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uh other times we have real talk that's just five to 20 minutes of me giving you some real talk
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sometimes we have full length that's typically what you see whenever we have a guest come in and
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we have a conversation and then sometimes we have 75 hard verses and that's where someone who comes in
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who's completed the 75 hard program uh comes in and talks about how they were before how they are
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after and how you can get your shit together with the 75 hard program so uh if you're interested in
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the 75 hard program and live hard program you can get that for free at episode 208 on the audio feed
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that episode was released uh well before we were actually on youtube so uh go on the audio feed
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wherever podcasts are go to episode 208 on real af you get the program for free if you're one of those
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nuts and bolts i gotta know every single detail kind of person there's a book available on the
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website called 75 hard and that's at andy frisella.com so um with all that being said we have
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this thing we call the fee you'll hear us say pay the fee uh that means hey man we don't run ads on
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the show you're going to realize that um unlike most shows especially shows of this size i pass on the
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income to run ads on the shows for a specific reason and the reason is first of all it's annoying
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but second of all um i don't want to be told what i can and can't say i don't want to have to filter
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my opinions or anything for for money that's not what i'm about i'm an entrepreneur i've built
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successful companies i don't do this for the money i actually pay a lot of money to produce this show
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and all i ask in return is that you guys share the show all right so when i say pay the fee that means
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share the show we get banned we get censored we get throttled and um you know if this information is
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to get out in the world it has to be shared so um don't be a hoe share the show all right
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all right what's up man happy monday yeah monday morning oh what you got there
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uh this is a little screaming freedom first form energy you're switching it up i like this dude
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is orange no longer number one no orange is or i actually think the tropic lightning
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yeah as as it's equal to the orange at least it's very very good um but i like this too you know
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like the florida man and missouri man they're kind of the same yeah that's right yeah they're cousins
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no they're probably married yeah uh nothing man just just here to do the shit man you know it's been a
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it's been a weird couple weeks been traveling a lot been had a lot of stuff going on and you know
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here we are thanksgiving it's crazy that we're in the week of thanksgiving yeah you know this year
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has gone by so quick bro you know the one thing like as you get older the time definitely goes faster
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and i know like that sounds weird to people who are like 25 they're like what's that mean like bro
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you'll see like like i they were putting up the christmas tree here at first form headquarters
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that's where we do the show for you guys that don't know it's uh one of the companies that i that i own
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um i'm watching them put up the tree and i'm like fuck dude it seems like they were just taking
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that down like a week ago i know right you know like it was weird and santa's coming back yeah you
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know so it's crazy man um well what did you like did you ever believe in santa and when did you stop
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i mean yeah everybody believed in santa when they were kids right yeah and then you know you get on
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the school bus and the kids the other kids tell you that it's bullshit yeah i think the school bus is
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where i learned a lot of my stuff you know what i mean like i rode the bus with some older kids that
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were four or five years older than me and they they were kind of shut the fuck up kids santa's not
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right exactly like they were assholes yeah so it is what it is but um there was this one year santa
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brought me uh the presents it was wrapped in newspaper though because everybody's got one like
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that before we couldn't uh everyone's gotten one like that that's not that's not your thing like
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i think most people have gotten a present wrapped in newspaper you everybody's in here shaking their
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head yes yeah no i'm gonna die you know every guy oh yeah i'm gonna die i didn't celebrate christmas
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oh that sucks no christmas for him that fucking sucks yeah yeah huh i'm trying to think what like
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what age i was when my kids like all right i see your mom it's you yeah i don't know there's
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something magical about christmas man like when you're a kid and you don't know any better and the
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shit you know it's just cool yeah yeah huh yeah they are the magic parents are the magic well i'm
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just saying like how do we know santa's not though you know i'm saying like there's historical context
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and like you know like we got bigfoot explorers and shit like bro come on we got a show to do
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but guys let's get into it man andy guys i got some good ones for you i got three of them
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uh let's get with the first one though uh hi andy uh like some things you just can't entertain
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dude like i can't entertain a 28 year old man talking about fucking santa claus
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like when we talk about handling your family members at fucking thanksgiving that's how you
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handle them okay like oh i'm a i'm a she her when they're clear i'm a she her all right look bro we
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got thanksgiving to do you know like andy let me stuff the turkey yeah i bet you like that yeah
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i bet you like that all right guys andy question number one andy what is your take on the saying
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that money isn't everything when it comes to job opportunities okay so i currently work for a small
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young company with a great work culture environment that has none of the corporate bullshit but i get
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paid below my industry standard i've advocated for myself and asking for more money but the response
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was not promising i was recently contacted by a company that provides a 40 increase in my salary
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on top of bonuses and benefits but the company boasts about their esgdi agenda which is a huge turnoff
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yeah what is your advice on staying with the company versus chasing higher salaries well first of all money
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isn't everything okay like you have to make enough money to live your life look there's a lot to this
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all right let's this is kind of an involved question it it depends on where you're at in your life
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first of all okay you have to consider all things all right do i like working here do i like the people
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i'm around do i feel like we're on a worthy mission do i think the work that we do is real do i think it
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actually matters these are questions to ask because you're going to spend most of your time
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at your work all right we spend what we go home at five o'clock and we spend the evenings at home
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and the most of the week during the day in our productive hours we're spending at a job you know
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it's very important to spend that time in a place that you enjoy but here's the tactical advantage to
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doing that when you're actually in a place that you enjoy you're likely to get in a position where
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you make much more money because you become better at what you do because you enjoy what you do
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all right and where a lot of young people make mistakes is they put themselves just like this
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person in a situation where they kind of sell their soul for some more money and they put themselves
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in an unbearable miserable situation that they can't last in all right so how good is that
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raise and pay if you can't go to work and perform because you hate what you do you hate the people
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around you you don't believe in the mission and that's going to handicap your work ethic and likely
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what will happen is you will stand out as someone who's not performing and eventually lose that pay
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anyway okay so we have to think about this from all different directions when you're young
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and you're let's say under 30 years old the biggest thing that you're looking to gain is actual skill
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set you are looking to pay your bills yes you are looking to uh take care of your responsibilities
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yes you are looking for a company that has massive career upside yes but at the end of the day what you
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really need to develop is skill set and so you have to get in an environment where you can learn a whole
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bunch of skills that'll be valuable that you can take anywhere that you want to go in your life
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right so when we think about these these incredibly you know nuanced and difficult life decisions that we
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all have to make it's never just about money it's only only about money when you don't have any
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okay but the reality is is bro your your mental well-being your drive your ambition your fire for
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what you do that's the thing that's actually going to help you create more money and sometimes you don't
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get that up front sometimes you have to just get in a situation that you really enjoy that you find
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purpose in where you're actually contributing to people you believe in the products that you're selling
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or that your company's selling and you work in something that you really enjoy and what that does is that
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develops not just a skill set but also the passion that you have for it will allow you to move up the ranks
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and then the money starts to come right so there's all kinds of ways to think about this now sometimes
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when you're young and this is a very important thing like a lot of people put themselves in highly
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leveraged positions when they're very young right they go out and they get in a lot of debt they go
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out and they have you know kids when they're 20 years old and i'm not i'm not knocking that i actually
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think there should be more of that but the reality is is that the more debt and the more obligation
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you have the less flexibility you have to move forward in something that you enjoy and so this
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is something to think about as well you know something my dad always told me and sal as weird
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as it is is hey man don't do drugs and don't have any babies okay like he would tell us that when we
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were kids because like he knew that like if we got into drugs or we had kids at a young age like got
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some random girl pregnant that would significantly hinder our forward progression in life okay so these are
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things that we must consider when making these decisions and if you are someone who's let's say
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25 and you do have some obligations then you're probably willing to go somewhere that pays a little
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bit more money and and deal with something that's a little less passion-based right to to take care of
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what you do and here's the ultimate reality guys we do not always love what we do there's days when i come
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in here in this building which by the way i believe that we run the best cup first form okay i believe
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is the best run company of any company on the planet i believe in every single entrepreneur
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that comes here high level doesn't matter who they are i mean i've had everybody in here whether they've
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been on the show or not they agree they're like dude there's nothing like this and there are still
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days when i wake up and i'm like fuck i'd rather do something else you know what i'm saying like it's
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not always fun like we're gonna have to fight and i think with young people there's this big
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misconception that every single day that we wake up there's going to be it's it's going to be
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amazing and when it's not amazing and we go through these stints that last you know weeks or months
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where things just don't feel right we quit and we look for something new but here's the thing
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it's it's like chasing a relationship right like a lot of people will go relationship relationship
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relationship relationship relationship because they can't figure out that the only reason that
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shit doesn't feel right is because it's not new anymore you know like the newness of a relationship
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that new car smell yeah bro and people believe that like that's quote unquote love that's not love
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that new that's infatuation it's lust right that's lust and it's new and people people will throw their
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entire lives away chasing that over and over and over again thinking that uh you know they're not in
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love or whatever right but they really just don't have an understanding of what that really means
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and this people do this in their careers too they'll spend two or three years at a career
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and when it starts to get a little monotonous they go to something else but here's the problem when it
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starts to get a little monotonous that's where the separator happens that's where you have to push
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through because everybody else kind of stops they find their ceiling or they move on or they go
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somewhere else and you start to push through the monotonous and then eventually an opportunity comes
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that's a new opportunity within the same organization and you move up this is how when you look at
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organizations and you see people who are on the board of directors who started out in the warehouse
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at seven dollars an hour this is how they did it they put they didn't show up here every day and say
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man this is the fucking this is great this is like going to disneyland right like they showed up
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well that's not great but you get what i'm saying like not now yeah it's not like you'll end up
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walking out like you know in debt yeah right yeah no shit pronoun badges you walk out fucked up
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that's for sure but the point is is that no mickey no yeah don't touch me there
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i said her like dude but here's the point mini now yeah that's right
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it's mini okay look dude here's the thing we have to push through these monotonous times
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in order to come out the other side with a new skill set a new understanding that we can then
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utilize to progress our lives yeah so like bro this idea and it's i feel really bad for young people
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man because you guys have to watch all these fake entrepreneurs and fake successful people on
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internet and short form content all fucking day long i didn't have to watch that okay like i didn't
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i just knew the people in my life that i knew and i knew most of my friends were going to school
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to get a regular job and i was doing something different and i didn't have to watch all these
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people who were my age saying oh dude check out this i made seven thousand dollars the last you know
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week doing this and this and this and i slept in for half the like all these lies and all this
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marketing that's that's presented as real life through these fake entrepreneur people
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that corrupts people's mind that makes people think that they they don't realize that these
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people are completely lying to try and sell things to them right and they start to feel like they're
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doing the wrong thing by working a regular job or building a career i'm here to tell you bro
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the real shit entrepreneur life is not for everybody it's it's fucking seven to eight percent of the
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population and less than one percent of that seven to eight percent is a million dollar a year earner
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that's reality those are the stats that's the data okay so it's very very very hard it's no different
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than being on the university of alabama it's no different than playing on the fucking kansas city
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chiefs like you have to be that good to become a million dollar earner all right but if you become
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that level of employee there's lots of companies where you can make that kind of money and
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potentially get equity and potentially get stock and build a real life for yourself and that comes
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from not changing the direct like what if patrick mahomes every time he had two or three bad games
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growing up he said i'm gonna switch sports would he be patrick mahomes no you see what i'm saying and
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this is what people do with their lives it's what people do with their relationships and and then they
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wake up at 40 years old and they're like what the fuck happened well bro you didn't listen to your
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uncle andy man i told you what would happen i've been telling you what would happen for almost a
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decade now you can't get caught in the hamster wheel and the way you get caught in the hamster
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wheel is by switching your life up every two or three years when the newness wears off and doing
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something else true greatness comes with time as being a part of that recipe and if you do not put
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in the time the greatness can't exist nobody builds a great life in three years it doesn't happen
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no matter what the internet says no matter what anybody on the internet says so pushing through the
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monotonous shit is a requirement you just don't realize that after you push through the monotonous
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for a little bit it gets cool again and then you push through it again and it gets cool again and
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this is phases it goes up and it goes down it goes up and it goes down and if your performance is
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consistent through the ups and downs eventually you find yourself a million miles away from where you are
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in a much better position and so money isn't everything you should ask all these questions you should
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consider what it is you're doing because the reality is if you don't love what you're doing you're very
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it's it's highly unlikely that you're going to be successful at it anyway so like if you take a
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little bit more money up front what is that costing you on the back side values right yeah well dude it's
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costing you real success later yeah you see what i'm saying so there's a lot of ways to look at this
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and it just depends on where you are in the journey you know if you're a 30 year old guy who has five
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kids to support bro you got to do what you got to do and there's nothing wrong with that do it well
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set a good example you know what i mean like if you've got to if you've got to become a tradesman
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or whatever it is you do that's a noble thing it's a noble thing to do that kind of work it's really a
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noble thing to do any work and do it well in my opinion i don't really care what the pay is i don't
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have a it's the ethics it's the work it's the example it's the ethos huh it's the ethos behind it
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yeah that's right and like dude there needs to be a lot more i'll tell you this i respect a dude who
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is a plumber who does great plumbing work a fucking gazillion times more than some dumbass
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on the internet talking about their lamborghini right real talk 100 who would you rather hang
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out with who would you rather be around who would you rather have your kids around see what i'm
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saying absolutely so there's nothing wrong with doing those things guys don't let the internet fool
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you that having a career and working hard is some sort of you're you're fucking it up these people
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those people that you see will be broke their entire lives they're pretending they will never figure it
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out okay so that's my answer i love it man guys andy question number two andy i've been in no man's
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land for almost five years now with the company i'm building all i can do without the finances is
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network and build a following which is going great my problem is the loneliness of no man's land
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how did you make it more tolerable how did you stay in the right mindset when it seemed like
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everyone disappeared well a couple things one we have to understand the reality of of life
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okay just be there's not a single per there's really not a single person that exists that has
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the same friend circle that they had when they were in high school unless they've never grown or never
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evolved and they just stay where they were and kept doing the same things kept going to the same
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parties the same bars the same activities and you know they don't have much else in their life and
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those people will are very good at like propping up i'm i'm my my friends and my life and i'm i'm
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loyal and loyalty and all this shit right but the reality is is anybody who's building something good
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is going to cycle through relationships over the course of time you're going to you're going to find
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friends and then those friends are not going to want to grow at the same rate you're growing and
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and you're going to feel alone and then you're going to find new friends and when you find new friends
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they're going to be more aligned with what it is you're doing and if you keep going you'll outgrow
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them as well and it's painful to outgrow those friends because you also you end up having if you're
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a good person you end up having a little bit of guilt you like kind of think like fuck man you know
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i wish i could go but here's the problem is that when you're around those people because you're trying
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to grow and they're not they try to convince you that you're doing something immoral that's just the
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way culture is you know you're you've changed or you're greedy or you're different than you used
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to be when in reality on your what you're trying to do that's the point i'm trying to get better i'm
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trying to improve i'm trying to become better at what i do and they're shaming you for it and that's
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not good for you to be around so when we move to the through these friend cycles we have to
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understand that if you're an ambitious person you're committed to growth this is a natural reality
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of the path okay and eventually you'll find yourself in a network where everybody's kind of
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aligned and everybody like like my friend network now i don't see my friends my friends are all over
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the country or they're here in this building right and i don't have to like be around them all the time
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to know that they're there and when i have problems that i care about guess what i do i call them up or
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they call me up and we talk through things and so the the reality of the game is is that friends
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rarely stay for forever and so there's this thing in society where it's like that's how it's you're
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supposed to keep your friends for your whole life and and dude that's just not real it's not a real
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thing no okay not if you're trying to do things um you're not gonna you're not gonna be worth a
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billion dollars and go hang out with people that that you know think you're bragging because you're
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just talking about things going on in your life it's not fun to do yeah right so that's the first
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thing the second thing is is no man's land shouldn't last for five years bro like you should
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be working to maintain like a lot of people will say oh i'm in no man's land but they're also not
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putting any effort into networking or having relationships or building friendships and they're
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just pouring themselves into their work so much and they're neglecting all the other things and then
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what they do is they make it everybody else's fault nobody wants to be around me nobody likes me
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nobody and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because you're not making any effort yourself
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you can't expect people to come find you you have to make some effort as well and so getting around
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people intentionally and this is where something like the arte syndicate is a good thing for people
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okay because the arte syndicate if you're unfamiliar is a group that ed my let and i put on which is real
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business owners doing real things in real life and what happens is is people find new friends in that
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group that support their vision that work with them and help push them in the same place that
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they are correct yeah so you have to proactively seek relationships that make sense for where you're
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at and that's a real thing that you know a lot of people neglect because they think there's some
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sort of badge of honor of having no friends or being all alone but bro that creates misery man
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like one of the most anxious feelings that you're ever going to have is feeling like everybody else
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doesn't give a fuck about you when in reality that's not really what's going on what's going on
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is you've been so dedicated to your own thing that you haven't put any effort into anybody else's stuff
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or talk to anybody and they're just doing their own thing and you can't be mad about that there's been
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periods in my life where i have become borderline bitter thinking like well nobody likes me but when
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i really am honest with myself it's not that nobody likes me it's that i'm not giving any effort
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into those relationships as well so like because i'm so busy i'm focused on my own shit i'm not
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calling people saying hey man how you doing or what can i do or this or that and that's something
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that you know you have to be proactive about if you don't want to feel completely alone um because
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if you don't do those things you'll stay in that position of no man's land forever so especially
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because we have to remember you're moving up right so when you move up into a friend group
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you're the new person that these people aren't going to come to you like you're not going to just
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start making a million dollars a year a million dollars a month or whatever it is you're trying
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to make and all the people of the same caliber are going to find you they're not they don't care
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they've already been living that life you're going to have to insert yourself by making effort and
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making value for them to become friends with those people so like if you're not actively doing that
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yes you're going to feel alone so you know ask yourself you know are you making a real effort
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or are you kind of waiting around for people to join your thing yeah can you can you touch on this
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a little bit because this is actually something i've said i feel like i've seen this in action a few
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times um just being around you but can you talk about the intent behind making those new relationships
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when you're moving up that next rung in that ladder can you talk a little bit about the intent right
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like because there is a sniff test that those people on that ladder have and the intent will
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get sniffed out very very quickly can you yeah so so here's what happens so when you have a young buck
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coming up up the ladder right and they're doing good they're maybe they're making some money they're
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doing they're becoming successful they start thinking they're like the smartest person ever like
00:25:30.080
you they start thinking like fuck i'm the only person of all my friends making all this money but you
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don't realize bro you're not swimming with the big dogs in the ocean bro you're swimming in a puddle
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okay like you're you don't recognize that you're not in you're not even in the real game you're not
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petco but yeah so you sure as fuck are not the smartest motherfucker in the world yeah all right and
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what happens is is that these people start making some income and they start to believe they're real
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smart and real slick and they believe they can kind of fool the people up the chain but look dude
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there's been a million of you you don't understand this there's been a million of you come along that
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come in with the intent of i'm going to try to get close to this person so i can get something right
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okay and so people who are up the chain they are fucking highly tuned at sniffing out people who are
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hanger honors or trying to get all right so there's this long lag time period that you have to basically
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like prove that you're there to contribute not there to take and eventually the guard gets lets
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down and you start having a real relationship but a lot of people aren't willing to put in that time
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because they're so focused on what they can get not what they can give and so you know i get this all
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the time bro i get dms from people all the fucking time who are like man you know i'm doing this and
00:26:45.660
this and this and this and this we should hang or we should do this or i want to be in your circle i
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wanted this bro there's zero chance it's not happening it's not happening unless i've known
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you for like years and you know a whole bunch of people that i know that i'll vouch for you it's
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not fucking happening bro i've been fucked over by so many people like i've i've been i've been
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embarrassed i've associated with the wrong people there's so many people that i've associated with
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over the years that i wish i hadn't because i didn't know any better or they were good at pretending
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and that's over 25 years of experience and when you're a good-hearted person
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you know you want to welcome people in and you want to take care of people and you want people
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to win but you have to realize that most people aren't good when they're trying to get right and
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so like if you're a young person and you're trying to move up in your circle and you're trying to get
00:27:33.700
into a group and you're trying you have to put your individual desires on the way back burner and
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those should only come out when someone in that group asks you what can i do for you right after
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you've already done a billion things for them you know what i'm saying that's how it works you have
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to yes you have to pay your dues and this is reality bro like if i was working to get into a higher
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friend group i'm not fucking asking people for shit the minute you ask somebody for shit they
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fucking ghost you bro you're out you're out so like and dude it's crazy how many of these young
00:28:06.540
people will hit me up in dms like cold up asking me for shit you know what i mean like yeah like you
00:28:13.020
guys are you guys are not aware of how it works and then you realize like you you you can't figure
00:28:18.200
out why you can't get in somewhere and you know then you end up thinking like those people are all
00:28:24.000
assholes well no that's not actually what's going on what's actually going on is they've seen a million
00:28:27.920
people just like you come in and fucking causing problems whether it be drama or or screw them over
00:28:34.760
or bullshit bro i fuck man i could tell you a million stories like this yeah so the more successful
00:28:40.260
people get the more the guard goes up because there's so many people coming at them that they're
00:28:45.540
like no i don't need any more friends right like bro i don't want any more friends i've thought and
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i'm talking me literally i do not want any more friends i don't want i don't want anything from
00:28:54.700
anybody i don't need anything from anybody i don't i don't want anything like if i if i am putting
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interest in you it's because i see something that i believe in that i think i can help with and i don't
00:29:05.580
expect anything in return like i have given away i have just subscribed myself to this mentality of
00:29:12.760
i'm if i give i'm giving i'm not loaning i'm not expecting in return you know like i'm some one
00:29:21.100
thing i like to do is i like to meet with young business owners uh locally it's like sometimes i
00:29:25.520
meet with young business owners at my garage in my house i invite them over locally we have
00:29:29.340
a cigar we talk about business i'll do a whiteboard with them and i don't need it they're like well what
00:29:35.080
can i do nothing i'm not doing this i'm not i'm doing this because i think i can help you and it
00:29:40.260
doesn't really cost me shit i don't want anything in return but also i'm not giving you any more than
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that you know what i'm saying like we're not gonna fucking hold hands we're not gonna i'm not drinking
00:29:50.100
beer with you yeah i'm just trying to give you a little bit of fucking info so it can save you some
00:29:54.600
time because i believe that entrepreneurs are the cure to what's going on in society so i try to
00:30:00.240
contribute in that way but i mean dude the reality is is it is it you have to pour into people before
00:30:07.400
they'll actually accept you into their group after you're moving up the ladder and and a lot of people
00:30:11.340
aren't willing to put in that time or effort or energy or they misunderstand the amount of time effort
00:30:16.460
or energy that it actually takes yeah you know like and those are just bro imagine for 25 years
00:30:21.520
if like 80 of the people that you let close to you turned out to be flakes and either fucked you
00:30:27.700
over or cause you drama or cause you gossip like dude i'm at the point now where like if i do
00:30:33.440
something for someone they cause me any type of fucking drama whatsoever where i just cut them the
00:30:37.300
fuck out i just don't even deal with it i don't care you know and that's how all those people are
00:30:42.720
yeah so you know if you want to move up in your friend circle the answer to the question is this
00:30:47.620
make sure that you're you're putting make sure you're not you're not i would audit whether or not
00:30:54.280
you're actually in no man's land or whether you are actually not putting in any effort to build a
00:30:59.460
new friend circle and i would take advantage of groups like rta syndicate i would try to get around
00:31:05.460
people who are higher up the chain than you and i would work to contribute value to them any way
00:31:10.160
possible and that doesn't look like you know hey man what can i do to provide value for you that's not
00:31:15.900
what we're talking about we're talking about you using your own skill set your own perception
00:31:20.540
to do things that benefit those people to show them that you're not there to take you're there
00:31:24.980
to contribute and it once you're there to contribute everybody's there to contribute and you'll get
00:31:29.620
contributed to as well over the course of time yeah but it's not a transactional thing you'll get
00:31:34.800
sniffed out you kicked off the ladder i love it man fucking love it guys any question number three
00:31:40.620
third and final question hey eddie my husband and i are 30 years old and we have three kids under the age
00:31:47.900
of five he has always wanted to start his own business but how do i support him in doing this
00:31:54.520
when i'm fearful of losing his income to build his company i don't ever want to hold him back
00:31:59.820
or be the reason he doesn't pursue something but i don't think it's crazy to be concerned about the
00:32:04.540
money and having his income on top of mine to keep the bills paid any advice on this yeah i mean a lot
00:32:12.160
of people make this transition the wrong okay yeah i have a lot of advice okay first of all
00:32:17.600
you have to understand like to do entrepreneurship in a real way is probably the hardest thing that
00:32:26.020
you're ever going to do in your entire life all right you have to be mentally prepared and you have
00:32:31.720
to be built for it this is why i cannot stand the online entrepreneur space quote unquote because so
00:32:42.740
many of these people make it sound like it's so easy and it's so quick and it's so fast and it's for
00:32:48.240
everyone and what ends up happening is people when they get into the game they get their ass beat and
00:32:56.320
they're like fuck i'm doing something wrong no you're not doing anything wrong man it's just hard
00:33:02.680
yeah and so i come from the place of this understand this is going to be the hardest thing you've ever
00:33:08.280
done and work to prepare yourself and build yourself into someone who can tolerate that path
00:33:13.340
all right so that's the first thing i want the first thing is this make sure that you're not just
00:33:20.880
buying into the idea of becoming an entrepreneur because it's what's going on in the world right
00:33:26.260
now this idea that you're you're more free you have more free time you make more that's fucking
00:33:32.960
bullshit that that will that happens when you're like 15 years into the fucking journey not a month
00:33:39.480
okay not the next week when you quit your job like the amount of misunderstanding when it comes to this
00:33:46.360
is insane to me and maybe it's just because i've done it but we're propagated day in and day out by
00:33:54.000
these messages that entrepreneurship is very easy and then anybody can do it and that's simply not
00:33:59.040
the truth statistically it's not the truth all right so first question is is this something that
00:34:05.300
you're truly committed to over the course of your life or is this something that you want to do
00:34:10.220
because it seems like everybody else is doing it or is this something you're wanting to do because
00:34:15.300
you're upset with your current situation okay because if it's not something that you're going to commit
00:34:20.200
to from here until you the time you could see it through to fruition which is probably your whole
00:34:24.720
life it's not worth doing because it's too hard of a journey you won't be successful and you'll find
00:34:29.160
yourself right back in the position where you are doing the same thing you're doing now three or four
00:34:34.240
years down the road and you've just lost three or four years of progress in that thing all right so
00:34:38.980
first off are you really committed to this is this something that you truly want to do
00:34:42.860
secondly transitioning from a regular job to a business owner or entrepreneur people think they
00:34:52.060
got to rip the band-aid off and just jump in that's not actually how most successful people do it how
00:34:57.840
they do it is they work their job and then at nighttime or the free time they have they start to
00:35:02.520
build their business and it becomes like a a side project at first all right and then they make a
00:35:07.560
they get a little bit going they get a little bit more going and they get a little bit more going
00:35:11.340
and then they come to a point where they can't get any more going financially business-wise without
00:35:16.540
the time available from their day job right when you get to a point where you can cover your bills
00:35:22.900
and you can survive financially and and the day job is holding you back from growing this further
00:35:30.020
that's the time where you make the jump from your rain gig to the side gig and make the side gig your
00:35:35.600
main gig does that make sense absolutely okay so people people don't do this transition properly
00:35:41.040
and it ends up ruining their whole thing because you know they pull the band-aid off and then three
00:35:46.720
months down the road they can't pay any of their bills okay another thing is when you make that jump
00:35:52.320
you should be in a position where you could financially float your bills for a number of months in
00:35:58.280
advance and this might require you downsizing your life this this might require you going from
00:36:04.120
a three hundred thousand dollar home or two hundred thousand dollar home back to an apartment
00:36:08.620
this might require you selling your nice fifty thousand dollar pickup truck and going to a ten
00:36:13.780
thousand dollar beater okay so when you downsize your lot your financial liabilities you have less
00:36:19.460
restraint on and more freedom on what you can do so these are all things to consider but when i hear
00:36:26.760
questions like this the main thing that bothers me the most is i i worry that people are jumping into
00:36:34.820
things because the internet culture makes it seem like it's something that it actually isn't and that
00:36:41.680
concerns me entrepreneurship is incredibly rewarding but it's also incredibly difficult all right i'm very
00:36:48.480
good at entrepreneurship that my my wins my scoreboard has a hundred motherfucking points on it okay
00:36:55.080
it's i there are days when i wake up where i'm like i cannot fucking do this you know and i'm good at
00:37:01.340
it dude you know what i'm saying yeah and let me tell you something all these other entrepreneurs that
00:37:05.920
you know on the internet as like these main fucking top level guys i'm gonna tell you i'm friends with
00:37:12.020
them there's days where they had that too where they're like fuck bro this is fucking hard so if it's hard
00:37:17.760
for them you have to understand how hard it's going to be for you not knowing what they know
00:37:22.980
just getting started dude it's the hardest thing you will ever do in your entire life and i'm not
00:37:29.520
saying that to scare you i'm saying that so that you can prepare yourselves mentally for the fucking
00:37:35.160
path that you're about to embark on it's hard and that this is why i get so frustrated with the
00:37:40.920
culture of this game because everybody makes it seem like it's not it's just not for everybody dude
00:37:46.340
it's like it's statistically what it is it's it's seven to eight percent of the population
00:37:52.480
with less than one percent of those earning a million dollars a year that's reality
00:37:56.040
okay now if you're going to become i'm not saying every single one of you out here could likely become
00:38:02.100
one of those people making that kind of money but the reality is is you're going to have to trade a
00:38:05.660
lot for it it's not going to be easy it's not going to be as simple as downloading a course or a
00:38:10.780
program or a funnel or a this or that or this it's going to be incredibly difficult you're going
00:38:16.940
to lose a lot of sleep you're going to wake up with a lot of stress you're going to live a life
00:38:21.080
of anxiety and frustration and pain almost every single day like it's just something that most people
00:38:27.220
are not cut out to deal with it's a different level of responsibility that is hard and so you know
00:38:35.420
to answer the question and i'm not fucking discouraging you guys because you can do it if
00:38:40.640
you become the kind of person who does those things you just have to prepare yourself for it
00:38:45.580
this is why the live hard program is such a valuable program because it increases all the skill sets that
00:38:51.200
you need discipline grit fortitude self-confidence self-belief self-esteem the ability to endure this is
00:38:59.340
what we're these are the skill sets needed in entrepreneurship to succeed so if you don't have those
00:39:04.560
go do the live hard program and do it every single year because those skills need to be sharpened over
00:39:09.960
and over and over and over and over again as you go down the path so that's why i did the program
00:39:15.000
all right but here's the thing ask yourself what is it and why is it that i want to do this and be honest
00:39:22.840
what do i expect from this am i committed to this for the rest of my life is this something i'm doing
00:39:28.800
because it's popular or is this something i'm doing because i'm called to do it do i actually
00:39:34.120
love what it is i'm trying to do and that's an important factor too there's a lot of people who
00:39:38.840
say you don't have to love what you do i disagree i believe that you do have to ultimately love what
00:39:43.680
you do because it's so hard at certain points in time that the love for what you do will be the
00:39:50.120
only thing that pulls you through that process right like there's been a lot of times dude where
00:39:55.260
there's been a number of times i'll just be candid where i've had the ability to sell my entire
00:40:00.020
company and we're not talking about a little bit of money we're talking about money where i never have
00:40:03.620
do shit ever again and what i've thought about during those times is okay well what do i love
00:40:11.020
well what i love is is i love seeing people change their lives i love seeing people go from a place
00:40:17.220
of confusion and uncomfortableness to a place of confidence and certainty and physical uh you know
00:40:23.280
a better physical state a better mental state i love helping people develop their careers i love
00:40:29.020
seeing people progress and that's not worth money to me you see what i'm saying so we have to like
00:40:34.740
there's all these things that we have to consider when we think about should we do it or should we
00:40:39.460
not and i'll close this question with this very simply there's nothing that any of you can't do
00:40:44.800
it's just what is it are you willing to pay to do it and if the answer isn't i'm willing to do
00:40:50.260
whatever the fuck it takes then you shouldn't do it because that's what it takes i love that man
00:40:54.740
i love it uh well guys andy that was three all right guys appreciate you guys i love you guys
00:41:01.640
went from sleeping on the floor now my jewelry box froze fuck a bowl fuck a stove counted millions
00:41:09.100
in the cold bad bitch booted swole got her on bankroll can't fold doesn't know headshot case closed